Readyboost, recommended sticks?

Psycho Sonny · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:03

Combat squirrel said:
can you use more than one USB stick for readyboost ? how about raiding a pair of usb sticks

no and no

Psycho Sonny · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:04

moogle said:
i dont think so. its in between hard drives and ram.

i have 4 gigs of ram and a readyboost drive i bet it gets used even though most of the time i will have 3 gigs of ram free

Energize · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:46

alexthecheese said:
Is flash memory quicker than ram?

Flash memory is very slow compared to hard drives and incredibly slow compared to ram in terms of transfer rates.

In terms of access times, it is better than a hd but again much worse than ram, the best ram avalible has access times of under 1 nanosecond.

lay-z-boy · 23 Jan 2007 at 17:57

Combat squirrel said:
how about raiding a pair of usb sticks

Tried that, 4 ipod shuffles in raid 0.

Was very nippy

funkeh · 23 Jan 2007 at 21:09

vlite already has vista down to 650mb

Psycho Sonny · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:40

funkeh said:
vlite already has vista down to 650mb

right what does vlite actually do and what are the advantages and disadvantages, basically it just removes stuff from vista right? why would you want to do that?

Energize · 23 Jan 2007 at 23:15

Psycho Sonny said:
right what does vlite actually do and what are the advantages and disadvantages, basically it just removes stuff from vista right? why would you want to do that?

It removes all the languages you don't want which reduces the install by hundreds of mb, it then removes crap like drivers for devices you'll never use or will install from the cd's, it then removes more crap like the windows tour which in xp was over 40mb! It gets rid of services and features you don't want like obscure ones designed for servers, or you can choose to remove stuff like the media centre if your using your pc for normal desktop purposes.

Then you can add drivers to the install, add hotfixes and service packs tweak the registry to improve performance etc.

Combat squirrel · 23 Jan 2007 at 23:21

lay-z-boy said:
Tried that, 4 ipod shuffles in raid 0.

Was very nippy

dont say that when im drunk ! lol, seriously or ?

lol

lay-z-boy · 24 Jan 2007 at 00:36

funkeh said:
vlite already has vista down to 650mb

Did it actually boot?

More to the point, did it support anything or have any features?

dont say that when im drunk ! lol, seriously or ? lol

Yes i am

Energize · 24 Jan 2007 at 00:50

lay-z-boy said:
Did it actually boot?

More to the point, did it support anything or have any features?

It had all the functionality of xp, with some extra vista stuff I think. Xp pro can be shrunk down to under 300MB after all.

Combat squirrel · 24 Jan 2007 at 11:22

lay-z-boy said:
Did it actually boot?

More to the point, did it support anything or have any features?

Yes i am

Cool! so was it that you put the whole OS on 4 shuffles then ? or did you 'raid' readyboost ? lol

ShakenNstirred · 23 Mar 2007 at 15:31

tested a 1gig sandisk(cruzer) as a readyboost flashdrive and it worked fine

lmfy2k · 24 Mar 2007 at 13:36

would a 4gb usb drive be better then a 2gb drive?

would vista use the whole 4gb for boosting?